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-Strange Christmas Traditions Around The World
Bizarre Xmas Traditions
In Italy they have no Christmas trees, instead they decorate small
wooden pyramids with fruit.
In Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela, it is customary for the
streets to be blocked off on Christmas eve so that the people can
roller-skate to church.
An artificial spider and web are often included in the decorations on
Ukrainian Christmas trees. A spider web found on Christmas morning is
believed to bring good luck.
It is a British Christmas tradition that a wish made while mixing the
Christmas pudding will come true only if the ingredients are stirred in
a clockwise direction.
A traditional Christmas dinner in early England was the head of a pig
prepared with mustard.
Sending red Christmas cards to anyone in Japan constitutes bad
etiquette, since funeral notices there are customarily printed in red.
In Norway on Christmas Eve, all the brooms in the house are hidden
because long ago it was believed that witches and mischievous spirits
came out on Christmas Eve and would steal their brooms for riding.
Submitted by Pasadena Phil
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